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Sentences starting with feeble

Feeble hearts as you all are, respect the experience of the aged, and bless Fate if it should lame the horse of the Kadi's messenger!--However, you will not listen to anything oracular, so it will be better to talk of something else. [10]

Sentences ending with feeble

We declined, gently urging the duty and pleasure of staying with her, who was now so dear and so feeble. [14]
And yet hope still lived in my heart; and though Caracalla may be a reckless murderer, he will do nothing to me, precisely because I am so feeble. [10]
Her mother was quite feeble. [4]
Their intelligence, and most of their mental faculties, are extremely feeble. [1]

Short sentences using feeble

I am very feeble . [5]

More example sentences with the word feeble in them

Lady Margery.--So please you madam, my limbs are feeble wh ye weighte and drouth of five and sixty winters, and it behoveth yt I be tender unto them. [5]
Her feeble health, which was very evident, became her particularly ill when, as at this moment, the harsh acrimony of her embittered soul came to light with hideous plainness. [10]
When Rostov asked what was the matter, he only uttered some incoherent oaths and threats in a hoarse, feeble voice. [2]
As he grew weaker and more feeble, what would become of this lonely little creature; poor protector as he was, say that he died--what we be her fate, then? [12]
And I suppose we put on the sackcloth and ashes, when the striped bug came at four o'clock A.M., and we watched the tender leaves, and watered night and morning the feeble plants. [4]
Now and then we encountered a rude log cabin without barns or outhouses, and a little patch of feeble corn. [4]
The old gentleman was weak still, so feeble that he had to be carried to his barge in a chair, a vehicle he had ever held in scorn. [9]
There Platon Karataev was sitting covered up--head and all--with his greatcoat as if it were a vestment, telling the soldiers in his effective and pleasant though now feeble voice a story Pierre knew. [2]
The Acadia College was pointed out to us at Wolfville by a person who said that it is a feeble institution, a remark we were sorry to hear of a place described as "one of the foremost seats of learning in the Province. [4]
Kutuzov's general expression was one of concentrated quiet attention, and his face wore a strained look as if he found it difficult to master the fatigue of his old and feeble body. [2]
This physician who was one day to tend the sickbed of the Nation in her agony; whose large hand was to be on her feeble pulse, and whose knowledge almost divine was to perform the miracle of her healing. [9]
A feeble hand was clasped in the burly hand of the factor, and then they all fell into line again, Cloud-in-the-Sky running ahead of the dogs. [11]
She could already walk firmly enough to mount the few rough steps which led to the opening in the rocks and, obeying the tameless yearning of her heart, she rose from the arm-chair and walked as rapidly as her feeble strength permitted toward the frigidarium. [10]
There is a very old and familiar story, accompanied by a feeble jest, which most of my readers may probably enough have met with in Joe Miller or elsewhere. [6]
A hundred feet up there was a great round hole in the solid rock, and from this hole there came a feeble cloud of smoke! [11]
The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. [5]
You think me too shallow and feeble, to endure suffering and death for the sacred cause, which is mine as well as yours! [10]
His scheme was too grand for these feeble spirits. [10]
Mr. Carvel is too feeble for me to leave him. [9]
I think I told you she had a prostrating week of tonsilitis a month ago; she has remained very feeble ever since, and confined to the bed of course, but we allow ourselves to believe she will regain the lost ground in another month. [5]
There she strove to think of the dead man, and she succeeded, but with the memory of the sturdy old hero constantly blended the image of the feeble man who to-day was voluntarily surrendering all the gifts of fortune which she--oh, how willingly! [10]
I have smiled to think how grand his magnificent titular appendages sounded in his own ears and what a feeble tintinnabulation they made in mine. [6]
This temple is to me like some grand epode, and the poet who composed it conceived it not in feeble words but formed it out of almost immovable masses. [10]
Howbeit, at that time the gang were about to light a fire to make their supper, and whereas it would not burn by reason of the wet, they had taken the dry paper and used it to make the feeble flame blaze up. [10]
We could hear through the door the good priest's voice in prayer and benediction, pronouncing absolution over the dying man, and at times my grand uncle's wrathful tones, feeble indeed, but terrible to hear. [10]
Only in the three fortified guardhouses, which had been hastily erected here, the feeble light of a lantern illumined the gloom. [10]
Though there are things in it difficult for the feeble human mind to grasp, it is an admirable book which calms and elevates the soul. [2]
In times like these the faith is the man; and they to whom it is given in larger measure owe a special duty to those who for want of it are faint at heart, uncertain in speech, feeble in effort, and purposeless in aim. [6]
As he spoke these last words he noticed that the pulse fluttered a little,--beat irregularly a few times; intermitted; became feeble and thready; while his cheek grew whiter than the pallid bloodlessness of his long illness had left it. [6]
An instant afterwards there entered the Comtesse Chantavoine, with her uncle the Marquis Grandjon-Larisse, an aged and feeble but distinguished figure. [11]
Your religious people there are too feeble, in intellect, in morality, in piety in everything, pretty much. [5]
Then one of them protruded a wasted hand from his blankets and made a feeble beckoning sign with the fingers, to signify, "Be a good fellow; put it under my bed, please. [5]
In this case their conduct is not much worse than that of the North American Indians, who leave their feeble comrades to perish on the plains; or the Fijians, who, when their parents get old, or fall ill, bury them alive. [1]
I take from the top shelf of the hospital department of my library--the section devoted to literary cripples, imbeciles, failures, foolish rhymesters, and silly eccentrics--one of the least conspicuous and most hopelessly feeble of the weak-minded population of that intellectual almshouse. [6]
The curtains of the sick-room were lowered and a small lamp, burning behind a screen, shed but a feeble light. [10]
Clara would see the report in the German papers, and as she had been nursing her husband day and night for four months [2] and was worn out and feeble, the shock might be disastrous. [5]
I don't doubt the medicament is quite as good as the patient deserves, and probably a great deal better,--I added, reinforcing my feeble compliment. [6]
It has entered the happy valley of Keene, although there is yet no church there, and only a feeble school part of the year. [4]
The style of the forty pages is loose and feeble and 'prentice-like. [5]
But that was the feeble work, the nursery work, of a financial fancy that had had no teaching, no experience, no practice. [5]
I am glad that Mr. Emerson, who is feeble and ill, can learn what a debt of obligation his friends feel to him, and thank you heartily for what you have done about it. [6]
After I had taken my place at the hearth by my aunt's side, and she had mingled some spiced wine for us with her own feeble hands, she bid me speak. [10]
That his feeble successors were able to keep this Asiatic Colossus of different countries together for two hundred years after his death, was entirely owing to Darius. [10]
When everything was still once more, I crept out of bed, sick and feeble, and lit the gas with a hand that trembled as if it were aged with a hundred years. [5]
She lay quite still in her cot, wan and feeble, with every sign of having encountered a supreme peril. [4]
Myrtilus, who, in spite of his feeble health, by no means lacked courage, found it especially hard to bear that during the conflicts he was locked up with Bias, but even Ledscha could neither prevent nor restrict these measures. [10]
So rough and so good!--My old man, to be sure, must storm and rave, but then his feeble and sickly nobody of a little wife can wind him round her finger. [10]
The long journey, so full of excitement and fatigue, exhausted her strength, and she returned to Milan feeble and broken in health. [10]
Stephanus, whose feeble sight could not reach so far as the plain at the foot of the declivity, made Paulus report to him all that was going on there, and with the keen insight of a soldier he comprehended the centurion's plan. [10]
And my feeble, sickly Aunt Jacoba, meseemed, was like-minded with me. [10]
His glance never shifted from the choir, where the priests slowly entered and took their places, the aged and feeble bishop going falteringly to his throne. [11]
The next day she could bear suspense no longer, and set out for Haworth, reaching there just in time to carry the feeble, fainting invalid into the chaise which stood at the gate to take them down to Keighley. [14]
They were perfectly satisfied, but Bridget presently found that notes that could not be discounted were but a feeble constitution for a Carson boarding-house. [5]
The feeble voice said: "I must speak--I cannot die so--not so. [11]
Those about him said that he became extraordinarily slack and physically feeble during his stay in that town. [2]
It needs a roaring fire to beat back the enemy; a feeble one is only an invitation to the most insulting demonstrations. [4]
Let the feeble reed on the throne be hurled into the dust! [10]
The stories they read, if they read at all--the novels, so called, that they have been brought up on--are the diluted and feeble fictions that flood the country, and that scarcely rise above the intellectual level of Jimmy and the absorbed pig. [4]
The cuirass fell rattling on the ground, and now--no, there was no deception, the wounded man's chest rose under her ear, she heard the faint throbbing of his heart, the feeble flutter of a gasping breach. [10]
I had not provided the flag; I had not made the arrangements for elevating it to its place; I had applied but a very small portion of even my feeble strength in raising it. [7]
He cried, he pleaded for forgiveness, promised to reform over and over again, and then received his dismissal, feeling that he had won but an imperfect forgiveness and established but a feeble confidence. [5]
To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan. [4]
The bird pours out its song unheard and unheeded; but, in time, hunger and thirst assail the creature, and its song grows plaintive and feeble and finally ceases--the bird dies. [5]
Oh, Persia--Persia, and our feeble diplomacy, my dear lady, though you mustn't take that as my opinion, opponent as I am. [11]
If he can only maintain this position, without more, this rebellion can only eke out a short and feeble existence, as an animal sometimes may with a thorn in its vitals. [7]
I am not one of the feeble lambs whom you have beguiled by the misuse of your gifts and advantages; and who then are eager to kiss your hands. [10]
But he was old, and he looked feeble, so her mind instantly changed again, and she offered him a seat on a bench beside the arched doorway with the superscription: "Nor Poverty nor Riches, but Daily Bread Under Mine Own Fig Tree. [11]
This panel was old and gray and feeble, and the light masonry had been loosened by recent rains. [5]
Out of thirty of us only four had found courage to refuse to sacrifice, but the feeble hearted broke out into lamentations, and beat their foreheads, and prayed that the Lord might strengthen the courage of the others. [10]
There are lots of things I want to talk about," she replied, but her protest sounded feeble, unconvincing, even to herself. [9]
The feeble flicker of the tallow-candle does not at all dispel, but creates, illusions, and magnifies all the rich possibilities of this underground treasure-house. [4]
The languid indolence of his movements scarcely impaired the natural dignity of his presence, yet his musical voice was wont to have a feeble, beseeching tone. [10]
There had been no meat save bacon since the McChesneys had left, for of late game had become scarce, and old Mr. Ripley was too feeble to go on the long hunts. [9]
That which was nearest him attracted him most, and very feeble now were the allurements of the life and the company he had just left. [4]
The feeble lips moved and Lopez raised his eyes to her face, as if to thank her, saying in a low voice: "The arrow--don't touch it. [10]
It seems to me that the best way is to look at the hodge-podge, be good-natured if possible, and laugh, 'As from the height of contemplation We view the feeble joints men totter on. [6]
To her excellent master, at least, the Elixir of Truth proved fatal all too soon; the intense excitement of that night had shaken him so cruelly that before the day dawned the feeble flame of his life had flickered out. [10]
The lame had leaped before his eyes, and feeble invalids had stood erect long hours when the duties of the court, etiquette, the command of royalty, compelled them to do so. [10]
And if the law had a feeble hold on him, how much more uncertain was his grasp on literature. [4]
Its history and its associations are its chiefest charm, in any eyes, and the spells they weave are feeble in the searching light of the sun. [5]
They had arranged it so that I was given the honor of raising it to the head of its staff, and when it went up I was pleased that it went to its place by the strength of my own feeble arm. [7]
The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man. [2]
In his eyes, in the eyes of Framley, it had been the brew especially prepared by Sheitan to tempt to ruin the feeble ones of the earth. [11]
He was experienced in the affairs of life and knew full well how little reliance could be placed upon the promises of the vacillating man, who found the sceptre too heavy for his feeble hand. [10]
Life was grim in so much of it, futile in more, feeble at the best, foolish in the light of a single generation or a single century or a thousand years. [11]
I saw him in his chamber, a feeble old man, but noble to look upon in all "the monumental pomp of age. [6]
Or is it, in fact, more artistic to ignore all these, and paint only the feeble and the repulsive in our social state? [4]
But she married in Boston a man of learning and literary attainments, though his health was feeble and he was poor, William Wetherell. [9]
He was lodging in a mechanics' cheap boarding-house in Duane Street, and we may imagine the bareness of his room, the feeble poverty of his lamp. [5]
Old Dr. Lemuel Hurlbut, at the age of ninety-two, very deaf, very nearly blind, very feeble, liable to odd lapses of memory, was yet a wise counsellor in doubtful and difficult cases, and on rare occasions was still called upon to exercise his ancient skill. [6]
He now made his way with feeble steps to the entrance where he was to meet his friend. [10]
Stephanus put out his hand to the bishop who sat down beside him, signed to the bystanders to leave them alone, and listened attentively to the feeble words of the sufferer. [10]
He started to his feet, but fell back again, so feeble was he, then rang the bell at his side with nervous insistence. [11]
He kept closing his eyes and then again looking at the fire, which seemed to him dazzlingly red, and at the feeble, round-shouldered figure of Tushin who was sitting cross-legged like a Turk beside him. [2]
Blomberg must tell him this thing and that, and the old man gazed into his face with honest amazement and sincere delight when the monarch supplied the names of places and persons which had escaped his own feeble memory. [10]
To plot to hide impending trouble from him, as if he were not a man but a feeble weakling, was absurd and contemptible, and must introduce an error of unknown importance and extent into his sovereign's far-seeing predeterminations. [10]
Then, at Schaffhausen, her darling had suddenly been attacked with violent convulsions, and the feeble intellect, which her love had so toilsomely and faithfully waked from its slumber, only too soon attained eternal peace. [10]
She shook her head; he still held the glass poised; her eyes met his; she made a feeble sort of protest, then took the glass and drank off the liqueur in little sips. [11]
She felt her head pushed by his hard hand, and with a feeble scream she flung off the coverlet and sat up. [10]
This feeble personage had crape enough around his hat to express the grief of an entire nation, and as usual he neglected no opportunity of making himself conspicuous and exciting the admiration of the simple Kanakas. [5]

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